Makes sense. And with Iceland currently helping out in the volcano-adjacent property market, there has never been a better time to get the basics grounded for your world-domination bid.

I think I speak for many when I say we'd been waiting for them to break the $10k mark. At this price, my fleet of armoured watch dogs becomes realistic and affordable at last.

Step 1. Build a Reddit search solution so utterly useless absolutely no-one uses it
Step 2. Wait for Google to realise Reddit's solution is so rubbish that everyone's using Google for it instead.
Step 3. Profit...

Ernie name has been taken for years - it's the Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment that has powered the UK's Premium Bonds prize drawing for 68 years.

I got the DVD, UK PAL release, quite some years ago. The computer/bomb scene you're talking about is definitely in that.

I had both. University link in the late 80s/early 90s, 14.4 Linelink E modem. Was just a lot more fun and a lot less corporate. Yes trolls existed but there were less or could be controlled with kill files in Usenet. Netiquette was still a useful word. Was just more fun.

I just thinking...these are the dark days of the internet, the corporatised, advert-ridden, data-snatching days. The internet's past was better, not worse.

Rephrased - "copy Apple again but this time add AI".

Shocking isn't it. And revealing too - shows aren't stories to tell, they are "assets" and "content". Can't imagine Sidney Newman or Veronica Lambert (original creators) thinking this way.

Please talk me through this:

1. Fat, hairy elephants
2. ????
3. Human habitation

I'm not even being sarcastic or ironic - I would love to understand step 2.

So we submit the student's work to ChatGPT. Presumably the student is banned from using AI to help write the essay, but now ChatGPT adds this data to its model. So next time an AI-catching tool is used, it determines that the student used AI because it can be found in an AI model?

It's definitely decreased in quality if you look at /r/all. I mean, /r/all was always a heavily mixed bag, but it's definitely worse now. Many many more bots, pointless inflammatory stuff, 15 variations of some anime thing...

If you go to the more focused groups though, the ones that don't hit /r/all...I don't see much difference.

On the other hand I used my ZX Spectrum to write out my "I must not..." punishment lines,1,000 times, with a for loop and a ZX printer. Why I wasn't absolutely castigated for being a smart arse I will to this day never know. Instead I was commended and asked to write something for an Egypt project we were doing at the time, because the ZX thermal printer was narrow enough it could look like a newspaper article. Heh.

Yes - I made reference to that. Amiga-the-machine beat the more expensive Macs, and cheaper STs, by some distance. But Workbench itself wasn't really that friendly - it was to a tech audience (I was one at the time), but not to the non-tech people.

I used to share a house with two Amiga owners while I had an ST (see post below), and also worked a weekend/summer job selling 16 bit computers and computer games. The Amigas were clearly the machines to beat. They weren't necessarily the friendliest option though, unless you wanted to dig into them at which point yes - the ST and Mac limitations would have been much more constraining than Workbench (you pick 2.0 - I'd say Workbench 3 was the "yeah, that's about right" version but honestly that's a small difference of opinion here).